Soyuz
Blueprint of a Russian Soyuz rocket. Click here to view big..!
omg this is beautiful
edit: this is BIG
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Warning! The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Happy Holidays from the 90’s!
Jimmy (PS Hayes) checks out the very holiday-appropriate ‘Mars Attacks’ one-shot from IDW Publishing
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Just the upcoming new Star Trek movie.
When we think of scientists and researchers, a passion for discovery, not a penchant for daredevil antics, is usually what comes to mind. Yet many a researcher has faced injury, illness and even death in the name of scientific breakthroughs. After all, when dissecting the mysteries of plague and plutonium, it doesn’t take much for things to go terribly wrong.
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When we landed on the moon, that was the point where God should have come up and said hello. Because if you invent some creatures, put them on the blue one and they make it to the grey one, you turn up and fu**ing say well done.
The Psychology Of Tetris
Tom Stafford writes at Mind Hacks on the strange psychology of why Tetris is so damn addictive, and how it scratches some natural human tendencies to make order out of chaos.
Tetris holds our attention by continually creating unfinished tasks. Each action in the game allows us to solve part of the puzzle, filling up a row or rows completely so that they disappear, but is also just as likely to create new, unfinished work. A chain of these partial-solutions and newly triggered unsolved tasks can easily stretch to hours, each moment full of the same kind of satisfaction as scratching an itch.
It’s a game that some have said has the potency of an addictive drug, and affects the mind so significantly that it can be used in PTSD therapy. Check out the full story at the link above to learn more about the brain’s desire to focus around goals, and how Tetris exploits that for simple, satisfying fun.
And then when you’re done, make sure you check out this amazing fully-playable LED Tetris jack-o-lantern!!!!
Happy Halloween!
We’re celebrating in our own little way: with laminae.
that 2SPOOKY gifset was going to be my only halloween-themed post, but once I got to “Assuming ‘jack o lantern face’ is a lamina” I couldn’t resist.
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